I have lived in South Carolina for 17 years and the tropical palmetto palm is one of my favorite trees. They are easy to transplant and reasonably priced. You can get 10'-30' tall palmetto palm trees installed for $200-$300 each. Make sure they have at least a one year warranty because if they do not grow a new canopy the following season most likely they will not survive. The warranty protects against the few that do not survive transplanting and most landscapers will replace the palm with a new one. The palmetto palm is also South Carolina's State tree. Below is a brief history of this beautiful palm tree.
The state flag of South Carolina was officially adopted in 1861. It has a white crescent and a white palmetto tree on a blue ground. Three white crescents (on a blue background) were first used on a South Carolina banner protesting the Stamp Act in 1765. In 1775, Colonel William Moultrie designed a banner for South Carolina troops; it had a white crescent on a blue field. When South Carolina seceded from the Union, the palmetto tree was added to the flag. The palmetto tree was chosen because this tree had helped South Carolinians defeat the British in a battle at Sullivan's Island (during the Revolutionary War). The South Carolinians built a fort out of palmetto wood, and when the British fired cannonballs at the fort, instead of knocking the fort down, the soft palmetto wood just absorbed the cannonballs.
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Rick Malon and Donnie Kunich
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212 Okatie Village, Suite 101
Bluffton, SC 29909
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